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UnfairRepresent
11/03/19 4:03:17 AM
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Ricky Gervais is no stranger to a bit of Twitter controversy, but his latest joke has upset a lot of people.

The comedian, 58, joked that he'd be dressing up as transgender activist Jessica Yaniv for Halloween , calling her "weird and creepy" and tweeting an unflattering photo of her.

He posted: "I was going to dress up as something weird and creepy for my Halloween party, but I'm bucking the trend this year and I'm going as brave female activist Jessica Yaniv.

"This also means I don't have to wax my big old hairy balls."

They tweeted: "Come Ricky. You've done some funny stuff over the years, but this is just odious and bigoted."

Another posted: "Ricky Gervais if you wanna do transphobic jokes that's fine, whatever, but can you at least try and come up with a new one."

A third said: "Learning @rickygervais is transphobic is so disappointing."

Noticing all the negative tweets, Ricky jokingly said he'd delete his post.

He tweeted: "This tweet upset some people yesterday so I think I should apologise and delete it and never make offensive jokes like this again."

Last month a human rights tribunal rejected Jessica's claim she was discriminated against when beauty therapists refused to wax her scrotum.

She had contacted multiple beauty salon businesses in British Columbia, Canada, requesting waxes.

A tribunal heard staff refused to perform the pubic hair removal procedure after she revealed she had a full set of male genitalia.

The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ruled she had gone on a campaign both to enrich herself at the expense of South Asians, and to punish them for what she viewed as transphobia.


Full Article: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ricky-gervais-gets-huge-backlash-20799886

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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk
11/03/19 4:05:14 AM
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Gervais is a known scumbag so this story isn't needed
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Trelve
11/03/19 4:15:59 AM
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Did Ricky say anything wrong? No.

Also Yaniv is a awful human being.
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pinky0926
11/03/19 4:18:55 AM
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Not offended by this but the key to offensive humour imo is to make it funny and not mean spirited. This seemed kind of not really funny...and mean spirited.
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RyuVegas
11/03/19 4:20:10 AM
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Fair, next.

This stupid story is still out in existence? I thought being told YOU WERE NOT discriminated against was enough.

And now Ricky Gervais isnt even allowed, whatever that word means when it comes to comedy, to write or say offensive jokes anymore.

Come the fuck off it. Yall are a load of crock.
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St0rmFury
11/03/19 4:20:14 AM
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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...
Gervais is a known scumbag so this story isn't needed

Yaniv is a bigger scumbag imo, but I admit I don't know Gervais too well.
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Smashingpmkns
11/03/19 4:24:16 AM
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Ricky Gervais used to be pretty funny. This joke is pretty bad though. Iirc his last standup special did have quite a few jokes that could be considered transphobic too.
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RyuVegas
11/03/19 4:26:26 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
calling her "weird and creepy" and tweeting an unflattering photo of her.

Just pointing this out, but Jessica is such an awful human being that really any picture of her is unflattering. You dont need to try and paint this particular picture is any more or less so than any other picture taken of her. This person is an attention whore and shouldnt be given the time of day or the words people write about her.
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Smashingpmkns
11/03/19 4:33:26 AM
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Why do people hate this Jessica Yaniv person so much? Lol
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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk
11/03/19 4:34:58 AM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Why do people hate this Jessica Yaniv person so much? Lol

Because she's a scumbag
She purposely visits female beauty salons then tries to sue them when they won't wax her balls which ask any beautician worth their salt will tell you that it takes training and they didn't have staff so she'd try to sue them amd fail
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Monolith1676
11/03/19 4:36:39 AM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Why do people hate this Jessica Yaniv person so much? Lol


The person wanted to have a pool party with kids where no adults were allowed.

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St0rmFury
11/03/19 4:37:56 AM
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Monolith1676 posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
Why do people hate this Jessica Yaniv person so much? Lol


The person wanted to have a pool party with kids where no adults were allowed.

And if you object, she'll call you transphobic.
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Smashingpmkns
11/03/19 4:39:04 AM
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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...
Because she's a scumbag
She purposely visits female beauty salons then tries to sue them when they won't wax her balls which ask any beautician worth their salt will tell you that it takes training and they didn't have staff so she'd try to sue them amd fail


Sounds like dumb shit to hate her for.

Monolith1676 posted...
The person wanted to have a pool party with kids where no adults were allowed.


This sounds like a better reason to hate her for.
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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk
11/03/19 4:40:43 AM
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Smashingpmkns posted...

Sounds like dumb shit to hate her for.

I prefer my way since it reminds me we're not dealing a predator
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Shablagoo
11/03/19 4:41:22 AM
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Gervais is an ass even though hes done some good comedy. However, calling a pedophile and a grifter like Yaniv weird & creepy seems appropriate.
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DisneyFan462
11/03/19 4:51:00 AM
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Nah its funny
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SH_expert44
11/03/19 4:53:29 AM
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IloveJesus
11/03/19 4:56:06 AM
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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...
Gervais is a known scumbag


How so? Genuinely interested because I've mostly heard nice things about him.

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mattnd2007
11/03/19 4:58:12 AM
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Yaniv is a monster

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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk
11/03/19 4:59:36 AM
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IloveJesus posted...
RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...
Gervais is a known scumbag


How so? Genuinely interested because I've mostly heard nice things about him.

Egotistical scumbag who thinks the idea of comedy is to be an offensive fuck for the sake of it
Basically he let his role in the office and extras go to his head
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Malfunction
11/03/19 5:00:34 AM
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Dude really stopped being funny like a decade ago
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UnfairRepresent
11/03/19 5:01:46 AM
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Malfunction posted...
Dude really stopped being funny like a decade ago

the exact moment he started to disagree with you right?

what a coincidence
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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk
11/03/19 5:03:04 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...

the exact moment he started to disagree with you right?

what a coincidence

Oh hey UR/JMO
are you going ot be trolling all through the topic?
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Shablagoo
11/03/19 5:04:10 AM
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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...

the exact moment he started to disagree with you right?

what a coincidence

Oh hey UR/JMO
are you going ot be trolling all through the topic?

Is the Sun gonna shine tomorrow?

Also lmbo UR are u really JMO?
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InfinityMonster
11/03/19 5:04:22 AM
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Loved the reaction Hollywood celebrities had when he went hard at them during the Golden Globes.
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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk
11/03/19 5:05:30 AM
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Shablagoo posted...

Is the Sun gonna shine tomorrow?

Also lmbo UR are u really JMO?

lel
same gimmick with how both accounts do trolling so I honestly just conisder them the same person \_()_/
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Nazanir
11/03/19 5:10:10 AM
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Yaniv is the actual scumbag, they abuse the HR tribunal in Canada to sue beauty parlors who refuse to wax their balls.

Yaniv is also known for soliciting nudes from minors and solicits for pad/menstrual pictures from the same minor.

Yaniv is an absolute disgusting human being and deserves any and all ridicule they get.
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Dat_Cracka_Jax
11/03/19 5:12:06 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
calling her "weird and creepy" and tweeting an unflattering photo of her.

He posted: "I was going to dress up as something weird and creepy for my Halloween party, but I'm bucking the trend this year and I'm going as brave female activist Jessica Yaniv.

He didn't call her weird and creepy.
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IloveJesus
11/03/19 5:15:23 AM
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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...
Egotistical scumbag who thinks the idea of comedy is to be an offensive fuck for the sake of it
Basically he let his role in the office and extras go to his head


So you don't actually have anything? It's British humour man. Treading the line with being offensive is a massive part of it and not unique to Gervais. People like Jimmy Carr and Franky Boyle are exactly the same.

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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk
11/03/19 5:18:05 AM
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these people I Swear
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IloveJesus
11/03/19 5:20:32 AM
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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...
these people I Swear


Could you please try being more coherent?

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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk
11/03/19 5:21:51 AM
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Imagine trying to compare Ricky fucking Gervais to Jimmy Carr

Why don't we compare the 14 year old judoka who started it a week ago to Ronda Rousey while we're doing incredibly stupid things?
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pegusus123456
11/03/19 5:22:47 AM
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I thought it was a dickish thing to say until I read the context of who she is. With context, it doesn't even read like he's mocking her for being trans.
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IloveJesus
11/03/19 5:23:33 AM
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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...
Imagine trying to compare Ricky fucking Gervais to Jimmy Carr

Why don't we compare the 14 year old judoka who started it a week ago to Ronda Rousey while we're doing incredibly stupid things?


Once again, coherence would be nice.

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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk
11/03/19 5:24:31 AM
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IloveJesus posted...

Once again, coherence would be nice.

okay just go on the ignore list please - you're pretty bad at this trolling usiness
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sk8r_ryan
11/03/19 5:29:15 AM
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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...
Imagine trying to compare Ricky fucking Gervais to Jimmy Carr

Why don't we compare the 14 year old judoka who started it a week ago to Ronda Rousey while we're doing incredibly stupid things?

Not that I know who's supposed to be the judoka and who's supposed to be Ronda Rousey in the runner-up for "Worst Analogy of the 2010s" but you realise Gervais' comedy career started in '98 and Carr's in '00?
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SpiritSephiroth
11/03/19 5:33:20 AM
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Agnostic420
11/03/19 5:38:14 AM
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Fair, next.
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IloveJesus
11/03/19 5:41:12 AM
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sk8r_ryan posted...
Not that I know who's supposed to be the judoka and who's supposed to be Ronda Rousey in the runner-up for "Worst Analogy of the 2010s" but you realise Gervais' comedy career started in '98 and Carr's in '00?


Thanks. He hasn't come across very well in this topic at all.

He still hasn't been able to justify calling somebody a scumbag on the basis that he doesn't like their brand of comedy.

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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk
11/03/19 5:43:54 AM
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troll accounts uses alt, it's effective

another one to ignore I guess
any othe ralts?
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Heineken14
11/03/19 5:45:55 AM
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I for one am shocked this Ricky gervais person has made an offensive joke. I also have never heard of Ricky gervais so definitely don't know his style of humor. Shocked.
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UnfairRepresent
11/03/19 5:49:31 AM
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Shablagoo posted...
Also lmbo UR are u really JMO?

No
That guy just likes to claim random things for attention
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Malfunction
11/03/19 5:51:32 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Malfunction posted...
Dude really stopped being funny like a decade ago

the exact moment he started to disagree with you right?

what a coincidence

More like right after he peaked with two excellent TV series and a bunch of mostly very good stand up specials and since moved on to posting r/atheism grade insight on twitter, long preceeding any of the more recent forced edgy stuff about trans people
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IloveJesus
11/03/19 5:52:10 AM
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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...
troll accounts uses alt, it's effective

another one to ignore I guess
any othe ralts?


I have no alts.

Also, haven't trolled you. You made a claim, I asked you to back it up and you've been unable to do so. I have doubts that you've even put me on ignore. You've just used that to run away from a conversation that was showing you up as ignorant.

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Sphyx
11/03/19 6:26:46 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
He posted: "I was going to dress up as something weird and creepy for my Halloween party, but I'm bucking the trend this year and I'm going as brave female activist Jessica Yaniv.

So, is he actually saying they're weird and creepy? Because thats not what i'm getting from this line.
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MARKINGRAM22
11/03/19 6:28:52 AM
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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...
Egotistical scumbag who thinks the idea of comedy is to be an offensive fuck for the sake of it
Basically he let his role in the office and extras go to his head
So basically no actual example of being a scumbag except he says jokes you don't like. So you attack him when Yaniv is a known scam artist and child predator.
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viewmaster_pi
11/03/19 6:31:23 AM
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Sphyx posted...
So, is he actually saying they're weird and creepy? Because thats not what i'm getting from this line.
This would be implying that he's no longer going as something weird and creepy.

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Kami_no_Kami
11/03/19 6:45:14 AM
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viewmaster_pi posted...
Sphyx posted...
So, is he actually saying they're weird and creepy? Because thats not what i'm getting from this line.
This would be implying that he's no longer going as something weird and creepy.


For fucking real? Have you guys never sarcasmd before?
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Master X
11/03/19 6:46:07 AM
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Hmmm...if all this is just the stuff in the opening post (not going to twitter or wherever this is posted), how exactly is he transphobic? He said she was weird and creepy for being weird and creepy, NOT because she was transgender. The people responding are the ones assuming it's because she's trans. Which shows more about them.
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fan357
11/03/19 6:48:01 AM
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Yaniv is a scumbag.

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